Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-iťь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Balto-Slavic innovation. Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *-īt-i̯o-. Cognates include Lithuanian -ytis, Latvian -ītis.

Suffix

*-iťь m

Denominal, forming masculine attributables from action or agent nouns.
*kъrma, *kъrmľa (“fodder, breast milk”) → *kъrmiťь (“nursling”)
*batę (“elder brother”), *baťa (“father”) → *baťiťь (“son who resembles his father”)
Denominal, forming masculine diminutives from masculine nouns.
*kozьlъ (“billy goat”) → *kozьliťь (“kid goat”)
*otrokъ (“boy”) → *otročiťь (“child”)
*bogъ (“god”) → *božiťь (“juvenile god”)
*pъta (“fowl”) → *pъtiťь (“birdie”)
Denominal, forming patronyms and metronyms.
Slovene: Janež → Janežič
Denominal, forming demonyms.
Russian: Москва (Moskva) → Москвич (Moskvič)
Slovene: Celovec → Celovčič, Podgora → Podgorčič
*dręgy, *dręgъve (“swamp”) → Russian Дреговичи (Dregoviči) (East Slavic tribe)
*obъ Odrě (“around Oder”) → *obodriťь (“Obotrites”)
Deadjectival, denoting a carrier of a property.
*golъ (“naked”) → *goliťь (“something naked”)
*bělъ (“white”) → *běliťь (“something white”)
(by extension) Denoting a carrier of a property but with a diminutive meaning through a parallel word formation from deadjectival nouns and adjectives.
*moldъ (“young”), *moldę (“youngling”) → *moldiťь (“youngling”)

Declension

Declension of *-iťь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*-iťь	*-iťa	*-iťi
Accusative	*-iťь	*-iťa	*-iťę̇
Genitive	*-iťa	*-iťu	*-iťь
Locative	*-iťi	*-iťu	*-iťixъ
Dative	*-iťu	*-iťema	*-iťemъ
Instrumental	-iťьmь, -iťemь^*	*-iťema	*-iťi
Vocative	*-iťu	*-iťa	*-iťi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-iťь

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: -ичь (-ičĭ)
  - Belarusian: -іч (-ič)
  - Russian: -ич (-ič)
  - Ukrainian: -ич (-yč)
- Old Novgorodian: -иць (-icĭ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic: -ⰹⱋⱐ (-ištĭ)
  Old Cyrillic: -ищь (-ištĭ)
- Bulgarian: -ич (-ič), -ичко (-ičko)
- Macedonian: -иќ (-iḱ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: -ић
  Latin: -ić
- Slovene: -ič
West Slavic:
- Czech: -ic
- Kashubian: -ëc
- Old Polish: -yc
  - Polish: -ic, -yc
    - → Yiddish: ־יץ‎ (-its)
- Slovak: -ic
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: -ic
  - Upper Sorbian: -ic

References

Šekli, Matej (2012), “Besedotvorni pomeni samostalniških izpeljank v praslovanščini”, in Philological Studies‎ (in Slovene), volume 10, issue 1, Skopje, Perm, Ljubljana, Zagreb, pages 115–32